{"id":525,"date":"2010-09-21T18:35:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/?p=525"},"modified":"2010-10-31T09:33:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T09:33:29","slug":"the-empress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"The Empress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt:<\/strong> Constance Walsh (ghost)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist&#8217;s notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are some evident differences between my card and Constance&#8217;s actual death. I&#8217;ve made it somewhat symbolic as opposed to an exact replica. I&#8217;ve taken alot of my ideas from the wiki description.<\/p>\n<p>Her physique exaggerates her sexuality\/physical attraction\/sensuality. There are a few factors that represent the opposite. Her deathly appearance the polar opposite of health. Her constriction opposite of comfort\/delight\/satisfaction. As you can see, her children are slightly different. They are now only hands on umbilical cord like appendages. A parallel to maternal instinct. The bottom hands (or youngest) claw at her womanhood. That is the &#8216;fertility&#8217; aspect as they punishing the womb that created them.<\/p>\n<p>The normal Empress holds a scepter which represents power over life, she instead holds the arms of her child at bay, the power balance shifted. The rising water is the drownings, how a life giver can take it away.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll explain the roses now. The Empress wears a crown of twelve stars; representing dominance over the year. I&#8217;ve connected the story of Demeter. The twelve &#8216;stars&#8217; represent her rage. The two unopened buds are the souls of her children, the rest are the mens lives she took. Her control over living things, to take life away.<br \/>\nBarren are the branches that connect them all to her.<\/p>\n<p>Power. Abundance. Health. Motherhood.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/spn_tarot\/53444.html\">The Empress<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt: Constance Walsh (ghost) Artist&#8217;s notes: There are some evident differences between my card and Constance&#8217;s actual death. I&#8217;ve made it somewhat symbolic as opposed to an exact replica. I&#8217;ve taken alot of my ideas from the wiki description. Her physique exaggerates her sexuality\/physical attraction\/sensuality. There are a few factors that represent the opposite. Her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36,111],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-major-arcana","category-motw","category-unatral-kreatur","tag-the-empress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spntarot.glittertheory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}